(That night, said madman was at an abandoned observatory as he walked on a huge stationary telescope that he had converted into a massive ray.)
Animo: "Fascinating."
(he said as he placed the faceplate into a chamber within the ray as it closed up.)
Animo: "DNA-based yet with a power source unlike any I've ever imagined!"
(Animo looked up and saw a large brown bat hanging from the ceiling.)
Animo: "Eptesicus fuscus."
(he analyzed.)
Animo: "What a perfect guinea pig! You shall be the first in a new world order courtesy of Ben Tennyson and Dr. Aloysius James Animo!"
(He placed his gauntlets into the machine, firing it up as he aimed the ray at the bat as the machine rose into the air.)
(The energy from the Omnitrix's faceplate charged up and fired a green beam from the ray, which blasted the bat, causing energy to pulse through its system.)
Animo: "YES! Give my new creation life!"
(he bellowed out as the green energy shone out through the horizon.)
(The next night, the team drove through the Everglades on a speedboat as they looked out for Animo or his frog.)
Gwen: "We've been at this for hours."
(Gwen complained.)
Max: "We have to keep looking."
(Max said.)
Max: "If Dr. Doolittle can figure out how to tap into the Omnitrix's alien DNA, who knows what could happen?"
(The girls then shot a look at Ben as they continued to look out.)
Ben: "I saw that."
(Ben said.)
Allison: "Saw what?"
(Allison asked.)
Ben: "Go ahead and say it, you three. You know you wanna."
Gwen: "Say what?"
(Gwen asked.)
Ben: "You know, the whole big "I told you so" speech about messing around with the Omnitrix and that you three were right all along and if I'd listened to you, we wouldn't be in the trouble we're in right now!"
Jen: "We didn't say a word."
(Jen smirked before winking to her best friend and cousin slyly.)
Jen: "Yeah, but you're thinking it! Admit it! There's no way I'm waiting so just say it now and get it overwith!"
Gwen: "I don't know what you're talking about, Benjamin."
(Gwen smirked.)
Ben: "Grandpa! The girls won't say 'I told you so!'"
(Suddenly, a roar sounded out through the swamp.)
Max: "I don't like the sound of that."
(Max said.)
(Suddenly, the shape of a giant bat flew out in the distance before its shape was revealed.)
(Animo had mutated the bat with Heatblast's DNA.)
(It was now giant and had Heatblast's rocky molten skin and molten webbing with its head ablaze with fire.)
(He then flew in towards our heroes as they stood up for battle.)
(He then fired a heat ray down towards them, grazing the water with a glare.)
Ben: "Whoa!"
(Ben shouted.)
Ben: "It's Heatblast gone batty!"
Jen: "More like Heatbat!"
(Jen said.)
(Max continued to drive the boat as Jen fired her energy bolts at her and glared out as they dodged away.)
Allison: "Gee, you think Animo's figured out how to use the power of that piece of the Omnitrix?"
(Allison asked.)
Ben: "Okay, that was definitely an 'I told you so!'"
(Ben protested.)
(The boat continued to avoid the heat rays as Jen returned fire before she and her brother went to the Omnitrixes.)
Ben: "We'll take care of Heatbat."
(Ben said, dialing in the Omnitrix.)
Max: "Guys, I don't think going hero is a good idea. You don't know what you'll turn into."
(Max said as he looked up at Heatbat.)
Max: "Everybody duck!"
(They all dodged the blasts as the twins went back to their Omnitrixes.)
Jen: "If we don't try, we're going to get barbecued, Cajun style!"
(Jen shouted out as she crossed her fingers.)
Jen: "Please give me something that has Water Lily!"
(They slammed the cores down and transformed before the lights faded.)
(Ben's form was a Diamondhead/Grey Matter hybrid that was slightly bigger than Grey Matter.)
(He had Diamondhead's crystalline skin, as well as the spikes on his back and head.)
(He had Grey Matter's eyes and mouth.)
(He wore a uniform that was white with black cuffs on the left and black with white cuffs on the right, and wore the Omnitrix symbol on his chest.)
(Jen's form was a Frostblight/Needle Mouse hybrid that was a little taller than Frostblight.)
(She also has Needle Mouse's brown fur, hair, quills and spikes but the spikes are now a pale blue.)
(Needle Blight had Frostblight eyes and mouth.)
(Also she wears a bodysuit similar to Needle Mouse's but with Frostblight's ballerina skirt on the waist part of the bodysuit and the Omnitrix symbol is below her chest just like Needle Mouse's.)
Diamond Matter: "Oh man."
(Ben, or Diamond Matter said in a rougher pitch of Grey Matter's voice.)
Diamond Matter: "Diamondhead and Grey Matter? I'm a razor-sharp hood ornament!"
Frost Mouse: "Frostblight and Needle Mouse?"
(Jen, or Frost Mouse, asked in Needle Mouse's voice as she fluttered her wings.)
Frost Mouse: "I guess it could be worse."
(That was when Heatbat swooped in and grabbed Diamond Matter with his massive clawed feet and carried him away from the boat.)
Frost Mouse: "Ben!"
(Frost Mouse shouted as she fluttered her wings again and flew after the fire bat, only not as fast as usual due to the added mass from the quills.)
(Heatbat let loose some energy before he dropped Diamond Matter into the swamp-infested waters of the swamp before he surfaced.)
Allison: "Ben, behind you!"
(Allison shouted.)
(Suddenly, from behind Ben, a gator popped up behind him and chomped down on him as Frost Mouse gasped.)
Frost Mouse: "Oh no you don't, punk!"
(she shouted as she shot out her arms and fired several ice-coated quills down that hit the gator in the back, causing him to spit out her brother before he landed in her arms.)
Diamond Matter: "Thanks sis."
(he sighed.)
Diamond Matter: "Could this get any worse?"
(That was when they saw Heatbat swoop in suddenly.)
Diamond Matter: "Me and my big mouth."
(Heatbat tackled the twins, sending Frost Mouse off her balance.)
(Fortunately, they landed safely back in the boat.)
Gwen: "You two okay?"
(Gwen asked the pair as they recovered.)
Frost Mouse: "I think so."
(Frost Mouse said.)
(They then looked ahead and saw Heatbat closing in again.)
Max: "Hold on!"
(Max shouted as he engaged the clutch and the boat made a sharp turn, splashing Heatbat with water, extinguishing its flames.)
(Heatbat, in pain, flew away back to its master.)
Allison: "Glad that's over."
(Allison sighed.)
Diamond Matter: "It's probably headed back to Animo."
(Diamond Matter said.)
Diamond Matter: "Follow that mutant bat!"
Max: "Guys!"
(Max shouted.)
Max: "Road block up ahead!"
(In the boat's path were a bunch of fallen tree branches and roots that would certainly destroy the boat.)
Diamond Matter: "We'll clear the path!"
(Diamond Matter said as he morphed his arms and Allison absorbed the metal from her stray bullet.)
(Diamond Matter and Frost Mouse sliced up the tree branches with quills and diamonds while Allison sliced them apart when she morphed her hands into blades.)
Diamond Matter: "I wish Diamond Matter was more of a health guy!"
(he shouted before the Omnitrixes timed out.)
Jen: "Oh man."
(Jen sighed when she saw a large tree directly ahead.)
Ben: "Grandpa, hard left!"
(Ben shouted.)
(Max made the sharp turn, sending them all sprawling down on the boat's floor before recovering once they saw the clear path.)
Allison: "Where'd Heatbat go?"
(Allison asked before Gwen spied the mutant bat in the distance.)
Gwen: "Over there!"
(she said as she spied the abandoned observatory in the distance.)
(Max pulled the boat up to the observatory as the others looked on.)
Max: "Looks like an old observatory."
(Max said.)
Jen: "What's an observatory doing in the middle of a swamp?"
(Jen asked.)
Gwen: "Without the lights from the city, the stars are brighter and can be seen more clearly."
(Gwen explained.)
Ben: "Oh, thank you, Ms. Know-it-All."
(Ben said.)
Ben: "I bet you three are just dying to tell me how I screwed up."
Allison: "Not at all."
(Allison said.)
Allison: "This is the most fun I've had in years."
(As Max brought the boat into the wreckage of the observatory, they looked up and gazed at the giant telescope ray in awe.)
Max: "Animo has been busy."
(Max said.)
[To Be Continued...]